Can a Dell Powervault 220S (scsi) be used in place of a SAN

[sbroskey]

I was wondering if anyone has or if it is possible to use a Dell Powervault 220S (SCSI) in place of a regular SAN. We are short on funding and are on a purchasing freeze. I'm looking to implement 2 VMware servers in hopes to attach them to the Powervault in some way and still be able to use Vmotion and HA. The Powervault has two SCSI Raid Contollers each with 1TB with of array disks attached. Can this be done through direct connect or any other means.

Scott

[weinstein5 · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Forums - The easiest route is to connect the powervault to another machine running Linux and share as NAS or iSCSI using tools like OpenFiler or FreeNAS - then both of your ESX hosts will be able to connect to it

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[Texiwill]

Hello,

The 220S can not be used directly as remote storage, you would need something similar to what weinstein5 suggests.

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Edward L. Haletky

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[sbroskey]

I'll try the Linux connection with NAS. Thanks for the help this should work.

Scott